ROCHESTER — The NH unadjusted (U-3) jobless rate for January was put at 5.2 percent. Since then, on March 13, NH Employment Security released its unemployment figures for counties, cities and towns.

The state’s labor force in January, not seasonally adjusted, is put at 741,590 of whom 38,280 are classified as unemployed. In January 2013, the equivalent numbers were 743,230 and 48,460, giving an unadjusted jobless rate of 6.5 percent, that month.

These are all U-3 numbers which do not count so-called “discouraged workers” nor make allowances for people working part-time who cannot find a full-time position. Every three months, U-6 figures, which take such people into account, become available. In New Hampshire U-6 rates are typically running at over twice the rate of U-3 rates. The jobless rates below, are all U-3 estimates.

Counties, cities and towns

Belknap County posted a January jobless rate of 5.5 percent, Carroll County was at 5.6 percent, Rockingham County posted a rate of 5.7 percent and Strafford County was at 4.8 percent.

The unadjusted unemployment rate for January in the United States was 7.0 percent. Rhode Island’s rate was 10.1 percent, and Massachusetts posted a 7.1 rate in January. The January rate for Maine was 6.9 percent, Vermont was at 4,4 percent and Connecticut recorded 7.5 percent. In the table of U.S. states New Hampshire’s unadjusted jobless rate ranked it in ninth position. Rhode Island’s 10.1 rate was the worst in the country, while North Dakota, where oil extraction from shale is booming, headed the table with an unemployment rate of 3.3 percent.